Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 26

‘I won’t sell him at all,’ said the father; ‘my own flesh and blood is dearer to me than all the silver and gold in the world.’

Who acts: I, own flesh · What happens: not sell, say, be · To what, where: other, all, father, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, own flesh), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 sell	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 sell	nsubj
3	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 sell	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 sell	advmod
5	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sell	iobj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 sell	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sell	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 father	det
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 dearer	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 dearer	punct
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 flesh	nmod:poss
17	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 flesh	amod
18	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dearer	nsubj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 blood	cc
20	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 flesh	conj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 dearer	cop
22	dearer	dear	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 said	parataxis
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 me	case
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 dearer	obl
25	than	than	ADP	_	28 silver	case
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 silver	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 silver	det
28	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dearer	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 gold	cc
30	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 silver	conj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 world	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 world	det
33	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 silver	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not sell	future	I		other	all		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Theme at all=Asset
2	say speech: assert	past		the father				tree rules
3	is	present	my own flesh and blood		me		than all silver in the world and gold; dear property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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